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A US soldier has spoken for the first time publicly about the bloody attack
which left women and children dead.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, who pleaded guilty yesterday to slaughtering 16
Afghan civilians, after striking
a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, said he could not
explain the atrocities. “I’ve asked that question a million times since, and
there’s not a good reason in the world for why I did the horrible things I
did,” he told a military judge.

Bales, who appeared in uniform in a Washington state military courtroom,
accepted that he had aimed to kill